This movie was filmed at the University of North Texas (Eagles) in Denton, TX (north of Ft. Worth)
Kathy Ireland was a huge celebrity for a short while...........
(note: I've attended both SWT & UNT.........send me an e-mail if you want to know which school is better!)
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... Then you haven't kept up with ol' UNT lately. These days they prefer to be called the "Mean Green" Eagles, or just the Mean Green. And they're actually winning games. Unlike the team in this movie.
Denton is north of Ft. Worth AND Dallas... okay, so it's northWEST of Dallas, but I-35W isn't a real highway. 33 miles on I-35, from Dallas, there you are. SEE where Scott Bakula got tackled. SEE where Jason Bateman got suited up. FEEL the door that Hector Elizondo walks through, at the Admin Building. It just doesn't get any better than this....... unless you're a film student in Austin, where 500 times as many movies have been filmed.
If Austin is Dr. Evil, Denton is Mini-Me. We'll get our day in the sun, and this was what started it all.....
Anyway, the campus has changed so much, it barely resembles the one in this movie. It's time for.... "Necessary Roughness II: Cruise Control."
-Class of '01.
(reminding the filmmakers that 1-8-1 is not a record to be proud of)
Actually, I-35W IS a real highway. You see, I-35 comes out of the north, from somewhere in Minnesota. When it hits Denton, it splits into two branches - I-35E and I-35W. 35E goes to Dallas, while 35W goes to Fort Worth (along this branch you will find Texas Motor Speedway...). The two branches rejoin down south of Waco. The neighborhood I grew up in is three blocks from the split, and my parents still live there to this day.
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Its one of my dreams to go to Denton and walk around the campus there, as Necessary Roughness is my favorite movie...it was so great when North Texas came here to Colorado (where Im a student) a few years back to play us in football...Im kicking myself now for not making a sign for the game along the lines of:
"Boulder welcomes the Texas State Fightin' Armadillos"
Actually Robin, they rejoin just north of Hillsboro, and about 40 miles north of Waco. With that said, you are right, I-35W and E are both major interstates (and of course 35W, going through Fort Worth, is a far more important, beautiful and meaningful route to take, as Fort Worth is the cultural, historical and spiritual center of the Metroplex).
shareYeah, Poor Kathy Ireland...Now she's just a billionaire. Oh Well
I'm an '04 grad of UNT and Quicksand is right, the campus has changed so much since the early 1990s and is even more different today.
But the film was a fun trip down memory lane and it's good to hear about the Mean Green winning some games here and there today!
UNT was a really good school when I was there, and from what I hear it keeps getting better.
If not a sequel, I'd like to see a drama or general comedy of some kind made in Denton. The town has a decent amount of personality (although I was sad to see its identity falter a little bit with the loss of the Flying Tomato!!!)
I know about Denton I lived in Carrollton Texas for 7 years it is north of there on I-35 Me and my brother were up there one day we drove by the practice field used in the movie
shareI'm a Yankee who attended UNT for grad school. I had a great time there. It's sad to see what happened to Fry Street, though.
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If you want to see the football stadium where the climactic game is played, you'd better hurry. The university has built a bigger stadium on the other side of the interstate, and the old stadium may be torn down sometime soon.
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When I was a kid I knew the University of North Texas because professional wrestlers Kevin and the late David Von Erich had attended there. Kevin was on a football scholarship. David played both football and basketball. Kevin left school to become a wrestler after an injury ended his dreams of a pro football career. David also left school to pursue wrestling. Pro wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin also played football for North Texas in the mid-1980s.
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